How do I find out how many bytes a character has?

Question

I was wondering how do I find out how many bytes does a character have?

Answer 1

• ASCII is 7 bits.
• Most other languages use 8 bits (1 byte).
• Many eastern languages (Chinese, Japanese) use 16 bits (2 bytes).
• Unicode is usually 32 bits (4 bytes).

How a character is stored and represented depends on the programming language and the platform you are using.